"The people of Java are very rich, and they are great traders, but they are very cruel."

"They are a very cunning people, and they use many stratagems in war to defeat their enemies."

"These people are very ungrateful, and they forget all favors, and they repay good with evil."

"And in this country, they have a custom that when a man has a dispute with another man, they go before the king, and the king decides who is in the right."

"I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Sara…"